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Anthropic releases new model, Opus 5
Anthropic designed Opus 5 to deliver performance close to its most powerful model, Fable, on many tasks at half the price.
TL;DR
- Anthropic released Claude Opus 5, aiming for performance close to Fable at a lower price.
- Opus 5 costs $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens.
- It is positioned as an everyday model for enterprises, knowledge workers, and developers.
- Anthropic is experiencing a rapid release cadence for its AI models, mirroring trends from competitors like OpenAI.
- Opus 5 is described as the most aligned Opus model and least susceptible to misuse.
- New features include an "effort dial" to control computing power and mid-task model switching to manage costs.
- The AI industry is seeing improvements in intelligence, cost, and speed.